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	<title>Raine Hollowbuilt Bamboo Fly Rods</title>
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	<description>High-Performance Hollowbuilt Bamboo Fly Rods by Chris Raine</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:32:47 +0000</lastBuildDate>
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		<title>Bamboo Rod Making Ferrule Fitting Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is the second installment on fitting nickel silver micro ferrules for bamboo fly rods.  This video is rather brief, I&#8217;m afraid, and it shows a lot of my back (or best side!)  I intend to redo this,  time permitting,  later this week.
Next video will show the fitting going on at the lathe.
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		<link>http://hollowbuilt.com/2010/03/08/bamboo-rod-making-ferrule-fitting-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Fitting male slides to female micro ferrules</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have given up on &#8220;making a movie&#8221; about fitting nickel silver ferrules used on bamboo fly rods,  so I am giving you this piecemeal.  My lack of editing skills, together with YOUTUBE not allowing videos longer than 10 minutes, make this the only way I can get out the information!
Well, here we go.  If [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hollowbuilt.com/2010/03/07/fitting-male-slides-to-female-micro-ferrules/</link>
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		<title>Raine Hollowbuilt Bamboo Fly Rods CNC Mill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bamboo fly rods have been made by mills and saws in greater numbers than by any other method.  Adding CNC controls to a bamboo fly rod mill maybe the best of both worlds.  A blend of old school with new technology.
The perfect taper for a bamboo fly rod with all of its insinuations inch by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hollowbuilt.com/2010/03/03/raine-hollowbuilt-bamboo-fly-rods-cnc-mill/</link>
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		<title>Saturday Afternoon Rod Making Class</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a picture of Luke with his brand-new split bamboo fly rod that he made in my February class.  Luke and Jim kept long hours and were both able to complete an extra tip section, in addition to their two piece, one tip rods, that they took from culm to completed bamboo fly rods [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hollowbuilt.com/2010/03/01/saturday-afternoon-rod-making-class/</link>
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		<title>Rod Making Class Wednesday Redux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There was a lot going on this past Wednesday when it came to rodmaking! Here are some more images of Wednesdays rod making class:
Left: Luke is setting up his planing form for the butt sections.
By late afternoon, Luke and Jim had started to get the strips of their rods down to final dimensions.
Wednesday was indeed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hollowbuilt.com/2010/02/22/rod-making-class-wednesday-redux/</link>
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		<title>Specialized Equipment for Bamboo Rod Making</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that students at Raine Hollowbuilt Fly Rods have to their advantage is the use of specially made tools for bamboo fly rod making.  And those tools are made right here in the machine shop.
This pair of planing form depth gages was machined here in the machine shop at Raine Hollowbuilt Fly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hollowbuilt.com/2010/02/21/specialized-equipment-for-bamboo-rod-making/</link>
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		<title>Bamboo Rod Making Wednesday Classes  Planing and Glue-up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No shortcuts here!  Hand splitting bamboo, hand straightening bamboo and hand planing bamboo for classic fly rods is how I do it here!  If you saw your strips, and grind them flat, you are not getting your monies worth.  The goal of my classes is to get the students up to speed and experienced in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hollowbuilt.com/2010/02/21/bamboo-rod-making-wednesday-classes-planing-and-glue-up/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday&#8217;s rod making class</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The real work begins!  Here Luke and Jim are hard at work during their week long bamboo rod making class.  Tuesday is splitting, straightening and pressing bamboo strips.
The phrase &#8220;hand split bamboo fly rod&#8221; takes on a special meaning after spending some time reducing the width of the strips with just your hands!
Careful instruction yields [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hollowbuilt.com/2010/02/21/tuesdays-rod-making-class/</link>
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		<title>February Bamboo Rod Making Class</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As this week comes to an end, a couple of students taking bamboo rod making classes at Raine Hollowbuilt Fly Rods have spent well over 40 hours of class room instruction building their own bamboo fly rods.  Starting with a culm of bamboo, these two hardy fellows have progressed through all the stages of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hollowbuilt.com/2010/02/19/february-bamboo-rod-making-class/</link>
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		<title>Real quad ferrules for bamboo rod making</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Square to round?  That&#8217;s the dilemma when making quad bamboo fly rods.  How to get there.  Without feeling like a miniature blacksmith&#8230; tapping, tapping, tapping. Pounding, pounding some more.
Here are some pictures of honest-to -goodness quad ferrules.  Square to round.  And nice looking.  And, extremely light.  30-40 percent lighter!  Can you say lighter bamboo fly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hollowbuilt.com/2010/01/05/real-quad-ferrules-for-bamboo-rod-making/</link>
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